I tried to partition the HDD to get Win 7 on my computer. But whenI go into the Computer Management tool and click on storage and then to Addthe Assign Drive Letter is locked and it will not allow me to choose it. Is there anyway to unlock it? You can see I can not choose the Assign Drive letter.

Hi If you have only one partition you cannot change its letter. First use shrink funtion to make free space(at least 20GB) that to format primari NTFS partition and to assign drive letter to it

bad idea to change the drive letter of your C: drive.

Ok i shrunk the Volume now I have 18 GBs of Unallocated space. When i try to use the New Simple Volume it says that The Disc has reached the maximum amount of partitions. What should I do?

You must expand extended partition and to create new partition inside extended partition.can you supply picture of disk manager to see how your drive looks like?

Ok so I must extend the C: to partition the Unallocated space?

What you have on 2GB partition at the end? Is it empty?

It was Media Direct, but it was wiped when i got spyware a few months ago and i havn'tgotten around to re-installing it.

You can have a maximum of four primary partitions per drive. Additional partitions have to be extended partitions.The first (EISA Configuration) partition is probably an OEM partition usedto restore thesystem to factory defaults. What are all those other partitions used for.

The 10GB is my second hard drive that is in use with Norton Back-ups. The 55Mb is an unknown. and as i saidbefore the 2GB is an old Media Direct drive.

If possible move your important data from 2GB partition or just delete it if no inportant data on it.After that I suggest you to create new primary partition.As bnborgsaid you can have 4 primary partitions maximum, but in your case there is no sense to creats extended partition on this small driveAfter you delete 2GB partition windows will allows you to create new primary partition.

If you want to keep your 2GB partition just delete 55MB partitionIf you choose to delete 55MB partition, you can then to make extended partition on its place and to create logical partition that will be 5xMB

I deleted the 2 GB partition and i tried to create a new partition out of the Unallocated section and it will not allow me to create one, it still says I have too many primary partitions.

Jaredh_d2012 said: The 10GB is my second hard drive that is in use with Norton Back-ups. The 55Mb is an unknown. and as i saidbefore the 2GB is an old Media Direct drive.No, the 10GB is the second partition on your one and only hard drive.If the 55MB is and OEM partition, there is probably a bios boot option labled maintenance or system restore.Try Action/Rescan Disks and see if you can then add a new primary partition.

When you delete 2GB partition you must get 20GB at the end of HDD unalocated space.Then create one partition with size of 20GB (all unalocated space)

Hey it works, Thanks alot for the help now i can reinstall my Win 7!

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